Module Performance Task: If you lived during colonial times, would you have supported the American Revolution? Why or Why not?
Vocabulary:
Loyalist: A colonist who stayed loyal to the King and supported Great Britain
Patriot: A colonist who wanted freedom and independence from Great Britain
Boston Tea Party: A protest against taxes on tea, colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor
Parliament: the British government
Boston Massacre: A confrontation between British soldiers and the colonists, the British soldiers fired into the crown killing five colonists
Skirmish: A brief battle, often without cause
Sons of Liberty: A group of colonial men who protested the unjust taxes of the British
George Washington: leader of the continental army, first president
Independence: self rule, not ruled by another country
Treaty: an official agreement between two countries
Boycott: to refuse to buy or sell
Taxation without representation: colonists have no say on parliament passing new laws for the King's taxes
Townshend Acts: placed taxes on products being sold to the colonists
Stamp Act: A tax placed on all paper goods
Taxes: money people give their government
Declaration of Independence: A document stating that the colonies were no longer governed by the British, they were now self governing
Thomas Jefferson: The writer of the Declaration of Independence